Question : database redesign

Hello guys. I am using access to enter the data into the database. The current database that I was using was flawed in several ways. There were no primary keys and no normalization followed. Now I want to rectify that and need your help.

This is what I was trying to do. We are storing the attendance for each employee. The database fields are
1) empid
2) empname
3) empdesignation
4) functionality
5) jobid
6) Attendence Date

The existing database would enter the data as

1001 Preetham  IT Engineer  IT  4  05/28/2009
1001 Preetham  IT Engineer  IT  4  05/29/2009
1001 Preetham  IT Engineer  IT  4  05/30/2009
1001 Preetham  IT Engineer  IT  4  05/31/2009
1002 Jayanth    Music Manager Music 3  05/28/2009
1002 Jayanth    Music Manager Music 3  05/29/2009
1002 Jayanth    Music Manager Music 3  05/30/2009
1002 Jayanth    Music Manager Music 3  05/31/2009
1003 Paul   Software Engineer IT  4  05/28/2009
1003 Paul   Software Engineer IT  4  05/29/2009
1003 Paul   Software Engineer IT  4  05/30/2009
1003 Paul   Software Engineer IT  4  05/312009

As you can see there's severe duplication occuring. How can i store the attendance without any duplication occurring for the emp id. Should i create another table for the attendence sepeately. Please guide me. Thanks in advance.

Answer : database redesign

Check out the new sample attached. Here you should use the concept of form/subform. Any other fields related to attendance should go in Attedance Details table.

Q-24451304-Employee-Attendance-D.mdb (296 KB) (File Type Details) 

New sample